Diigo will one day take the place of the morning paper. It is a way to filter the world to fit your interests and ambitions so that time and energy is not lost on the search for meanigful or applicable information.
I have found Diigo extremely easy to use. I had heard about it before but hadn't had the time to investigate it. Now I just need the time to add all of my favorite websites to it. I think it will be a great way to work with my study abroad students and colleagues as well as in my upcoming Technology and Teaching course. http://www.diigo.com/
One of the great features of Diigo is its flexibility. You can:
Use it for personal bookmarks with annotations, which are available from any computer, and not just on your desktop.
Tag each bookmark with several tags, to store it in and retrieve it from several categories.
Create lists of bookmarks on special topics or for special purposes, such as a class, and each bookmark can appear in more than one list.
Keep any or all of the above private, shared with a group, or public.
Highlight text and make comments on bookmarked pages, for your own use, or to share.
See what others who bookmark your links have also bookmarked - that sometimes leads you to new and interesting materials (and an hour spent surfing...)
Install the Diigo toolbar on your IE or Firefox browser (and others), or install a "diigolet" application on other browsers, which allows you to set up a bookmark from your browser, without opening a window on Diigo.
Import bookmarks from other bookmarking applications such as delicious.com
Export bookmarks to other bookmarking applications, such as delicious.com
Back up your bookmarks to your computer ... just in case.
And more! (I haven't explored Diigo any further than this).
With these features, Diigo can support individual or group research, creation of annotated bibliographies, group discussion of topics in a course, creation of a pool of shared bookmarks in a course, creation of a reading list for a course, and probably a whole lot more.
I have found Diigo extremely easy to use. I had heard about it before but hadn't had the time to investigate it. Now I just need the time to add all of my favorite websites to it. I think it will be a great way to work with my study abroad students and colleagues as well as in my upcoming Technology and Teaching course.
http://www.diigo.com/
One of the great features of Diigo is its flexibility. You can:
With these features, Diigo can support individual or group research, creation of annotated bibliographies, group discussion of topics in a course, creation of a pool of shared bookmarks in a course, creation of a reading list for a course, and probably a whole lot more.